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The Kraken: from ship-swallowing tentacles to a giant squid filmed in the deep

26/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - The Kraken is a rare case of a "monster" with a relative made of flesh and bone. Giant squid of the genus Architeuthis, metres long, really do live in the deep sea, leaving drifting carcasses, beaks ..

The Beast of Bodmin Moor: what did the British government report find in the Cornish mist?

25/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Since the early 1980s, people in Cornwall have described a large black cat slipping across Bodmin Moor, and flocks of sheep being attacked. In 1995 the British Ministry of Agriculture sent experts t ..

Orang Pendek: is the "short person" of the Sumatran forest an unknown primate?

24/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Orang Pendek means "short person" in Indonesian, and describes a creature that walks on two legs, stands about a metre tall, is covered in reddish-brown hair and lives around the mountain forests of ..

The Tasmanian tiger: do sightings after 1936 prove the thylacine survived?

23/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - The thylacine is not a legendary creature: museums hold skins, bones, preserved specimens and film of living animals. The mystery begins after the last known individual died at Hobart Zoo on 7 Septe ..

The ivory-billed woodpecker: the "kent" call, blurry video and a bird that refuses to vanish

22/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - The ivory-billed woodpecker was once the largest woodpecker north of Mexico, living in the old-growth forests and swamps of the south-eastern United States. The last widely accepted sighting in the ..

Is megalodon still alive in the deep sea? What the fossil tooth record answers

21/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Megalodon really was a colossal predatory shark, with serrated teeth up to about 18 cm long and a history spanning millions of years. It is precisely that reality which makes the idea of it hiding i ..

The Thunderbird: a sacred bringer of storms, or a memory of giant wings?

20/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - "Thunderbird" is the English name used for many powerful bird beings in the traditions of Indigenous peoples across North America, usually connected with thunder, lightning, water and the order of t ..

The Flatwoods Monster: a meteor, a barn owl and the terrifying night of 1952

19/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - On the evening of 12 September 1952, a streak of fire crossed the sky over the eastern United States. At Flatwoods in West Virginia, a group climbed a hill to find where the object seemed to have fa ..

The Skunk Ape: Florida's Bigfoot, or a black bear standing in the swamp?

18/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - The Skunk Ape is called "Florida's Bigfoot": a hair-covered, bipedal creature with a powerful smell, living in the Everglades and the swamps of the south. Reports increased through the 1960s and 197 ..

Ogopogo and n̓x̌aʔx̌ʔitkʷ: a lake monster, or a Syilx sacred being?

17/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Canadian tourism calls Ogopogo a long-bodied monster living in Okanagan Lake. The Syilx people, however, emphasise the name n̓x̌aʔx̌ʔitkʷ and its meaning, "Sacred Being of the Water". Settlers renam ..

Does the moa still live in New Zealand's forests? From a blurry photo to bone dating

16/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - The moa were nine species of wingless birds that lived from the coast to the mountains of New Zealand; the largest could reach up to about three metres. All of them most likely became extinct around ..

SCP-231 Special Personnel Requirements: seven girls, Procedure 110-Montauk and a redacted horror

20/06/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - In the darkest corners of the SCP Foundation archive there are files that even the most hardened staff will not open a second time. SCP-231 - codenamed Special Personnel Requirements - is one of the ..

SCP-2935 "O, Death": the day every living thing on Earth died at once

20/06/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Imagine an ordinary morning, and then, in a single instant, all life on Earth stops. People, animals, insects, bacteria - everything dies at the same moment. But what is more chilling than the death ..

SCP-3199 Humans, Refuted: the Keter creature that breeds through horror

20/06/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - In the darkest archive of the most secretive organisation on the planet there is a file that makes even the hardest staff shudder when it is mentioned. It is SCP-3199 - nicknamed Humans, Refuted. Th ..

SCP-1000 Bigfoot: the terrifying secret of the apes that hid from humanity

20/06/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - In the darkness of the old-growth forests there is a creature that has watched humanity for tens of thousands of years without ever revealing itself. It is not the dim-witted animal people assume. I ..

The most mysterious places in the world

01/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - There are many places in the world today that still hold mysteries for humanity. Science keeps advancing, yet researchers have still not found answers to these puzzles of the past, which leave anyon ..

Roswell 1947: a crashed flying disc, or a top-secret Project Mogul balloon?

15/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - An army press release on 8 July 1947 said the Roswell unit had recovered a "flying disc", then quickly changed the story to a weather balloon. That reversal created the most famous UFO case in the w ..

Rendlesham Forest: "Britain's Roswell" and the lights among the pines

14/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Over three nights at the end of December 1980, American servicemen at RAF Woodbridge and Bentwaters reported strange lights in Rendlesham Forest. The memo written by Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt, ..

The Phoenix Lights, 1997: a huge V formation, or two events merged into one?

13/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - On the evening of 13 March 1997, thousands of people in Arizona described a formation of lights travelling from the north down towards Phoenix; later, a nearly stationary row of lights appeared sout ..

The Belgian UFO wave 1989-1990: black triangles, radar and an F-16 pursuit

12/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - From late 1989, Belgian police officers and civilians reported clusters of three slow-moving lights, sometimes perceived as one dark triangle. On the night of 30-31 March 1990 the Belgian Air Force ..

USS Nimitz and the 2004 "Tic Tac": a strange object at sea, or the limits of sensors?

11/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - In November 2004, the USS Nimitz carrier group tracked radar contacts off the coast of California. The pilot David Fravor and his colleagues reported a white, pill-shaped object operating over an ar ..